My Family and Me

Jane Drake, Ann Love. Kids Can Press, $5.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-1-55337-002-4

Aspiring geneologists can attempt to preserve their own history with the help of My Family and Me: A Memory Scrapbook for Kids by Jane Drake and Ann Love, illus. by Scot Ritchie. The companion volume to My New Home and Me has fill-in-the-blank pages, places for pictures and a back pocket to hold mementos. (Mar.)

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